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Ibanez Custom ("Red Lace")
Serial #: F616858

This guitar, "Red Lace", is a custom guitar built by Ibanez to specs provided by Steve's 1993-1996 guitar tech Roger Bell. The body is mahogany with a maple top, with humbucking pickups in the bridge and neck positions and a single-coil pickup in the middle (Red Lace's pickups are DiMarzio Evolutions). The neck you see here is actually from a Jem 7WH, fitted to Red Lace when the guitar's original neck had to be replaced. Steve has used this guitar as a spare onstage, and Mike Keneally used it every night on the G3 and Fire Garden tours.

Red Lace was auctioned for charity in 2001.


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